January 2, 2008
Desktop Publishing; Running MS Office; Some Games
Scribus is an OpenSource desktop publishing application that runs on Linux and the Mac as well as other systems such as that one from Redmond. I don't use DTP very much these days, but I've played around a little with Scribus. Here you will find a…
January 2, 2008
For US citizens, adults only, you must be over 18 to view this content...
and thus of voting age.
Check out this site. It asks you to rank a bunch of different general issues, distributing 20 points across them. This requires you to think carefully about what you think is important (thus…
January 2, 2008
Obesity and Seatbelt Use; Epilepsy; Asthma
Obesity linked to decreased seatbelt use from PhysOrg.com
Obese people are less likely to use their seatbelts than the rest of the population, adding to the public health risks associated with this rapidly growing problem.
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Epilepsy and brain…
January 2, 2008
In Stockholm, the heat will be sucked out of the bodies of the thousands of people who pass through the Central Railway station to heat the buildings.
"So many people go through the Central Station ... We want to harness some of the warmth they produce to help heat the new building," Karl…
January 2, 2008
This is the inaugural post in a new category I call "Stoopid News."
One of our local affiliates, WCCO News (Twin Cities Channel 4), ran a an interminable trailer claiming that a new study indicated that "teacher burnout" was not caused by low pay, not caused by working conditions, not caused by…
January 2, 2008
Corey at 10,000 birds has an interesting post weighting the value of gray squirrels as a visitor to your bird feeder, vs. the nuisance they cause as a visitor to your bird feeder. Last summer, I found a way to combine both perspectives.
Up at the cabin, the habitat is mixed woodland, so we have…
January 1, 2008
Beer May Cure Cancer; Prostrate Cancer Protein; Vomit Inducing Infection Strikes Cursed Cruise Ship;
Cancer-fighting agent found in beer from PhysOrg.com
A key ingredient of beer may contain a cancer-fighting substance, a German study indicated.
[...]
Scientists find protein potential drug…
January 1, 2008
Installing Linux on a Macbook Pro; KDE - to be or not to be; Microsoft Developing Emacs.net ... WTF?; Tricking out Gimp; Cool, or possibly utterly useless, Firefox add-in
From Kahvipapu...Why? install Linux on a Macbook Pro?
Just because I can. Believe me, I heard question "Why on earth you want to…
January 1, 2008
Happy Birthday JD Salinger
January 1, 2008
It is fun, and appropriate, to slam local newspapers that uncritically regurgitate yahooistic creationist rhetoric. But when the local papers display fits of rational thinking, we should praise them.
Thus, I bring you a quote from the St. Petersburg times. This is from their list of Top Ten…
January 1, 2008
Today's Linux Calendar.
Jan 01
J.D. Salinger born, 1919
Jan 01
Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
Jan 01
Circumcision of Christ
Jan 01
AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
Jan 01
The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
Jan 01
Macintosh Epoch, Midnight…
December 30, 2007
First, have a look at this (warning, large file):
wow
It is a PDF file of the unrooted mammal evolution tree that came from this research.
Now, here is a question for you. There is a rumor that this graphic or something like it has been converted to a poster for sale. Anybody know where to get…
December 30, 2007
I like the way this address spacetime instead of merely space. Or time .
Do you recognize the languages i the background?
December 30, 2007
A town full of crazy people in Louisanna got fed up with having their telephone exchange be "666" because of the link between this sequence of numbers and the devil. So they got their exchanged changed to 749. This is very funny.
7:49 is the Bible verse from Luke Johnthat says "But this multitude…
December 29, 2007
From Slashot:
"Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007, according BusinessWire.com for 28 December 2007. Best selling computer? The Nokia Internet Tablet PC, running Linux. Best reviewed computer? The Apple MacBook Pro…
December 29, 2007
According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.
[source]
December 29, 2007
On steroids....
Dec 29
Battle of Wounded knee, 1890
Dec 29
Civic Holidays (3 days) in Costa Rica
Dec 30
First Los Angeles freeway dedicated, 1940
Dec 30
Anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in Madagascar
December 28, 2007
President Bush's boyhood home was severely damaged by a fire.I
nvestigators in Odessa now believe an arsonist is to blame.
[source]
Burning Bush Home
December 28, 2007
Visitors to the Institute for Creation Research Web page can quickly deduce that the organization, founded in California and recently transplanted to Dallas, is a Christian group dedicated to spreading the doctrine of divine creation of the world and challenging the teaching of evolution as fact in…
December 28, 2007
... Or so intoned the Janesville, Wisconsin student during show and tell just before he started ripping his Bible to shreds.
The school responded to this as a "safety matter."
One child felt particularly "endangered" by this show of bravado, and her father has pulled his kids out of the school…
December 28, 2007
Possibly even exceeding Ron Paul in his moronosity. Most recently, he has shown himself clueless in matters of foreign policy.
People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that I delivered back in Washington in September. ...[where I talk about] those…
December 28, 2007
Well, actually, you are supposed to try this at home. I was wondering what I was going to do with that extra 150 ohm resister I had laying around...
Blu-Ray Laser Phaser! - video powered by Metacafe
December 28, 2007
[hat tip: The Thinking Blog]
December 28, 2007
You may get bored half way through and turn it off. Don't turn it off.
December 28, 2007
Cool! A Wii! A Wii is a great way to deal with the problem of TV being a bad influence. Instead of sitting around watching TV, you INTERACT with your TV in a physically demanding way! It is actually GOOD for you! Watch!
Ooops. The down side is that you can only do this once. Once Per TV.
December 28, 2007
Beethoven Home court advantage matters when it comes to food and reproduction. So, where does a big male ape sit? Wherever he wants to....
... and if you are an adult male chimp, this means in the same part of the forest that you used to hang out with mom, when you were still more or less…
